Jameson's bloghttp://www.solopassion.com/blog/233
en"If I had to credit one thinker it would be Ayn Rand." ~ Paul Ryanhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/9284
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan">Wiki reports,</a> "At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that 'The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand', and 'I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.'"</p>
<p><img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/11/1344686860620/Mitt-Romney-Paul-Ryan-001.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/9284#commentsSat, 11 Aug 2012 13:51:39 +0000Jameson9284 at http://www.solopassion.comOCCUPY HOLLYWOOD: "In Time" film reviewhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/8711
<p>OCCUPY HOLLYWOOD brings us <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/"> "In Time"</a>, making bank robbery a moral right. Writer/director Andrew Niccol (a kiwi, embarrassingly) takes time=money, eternal life, manifest destiny, and Darwian Capitalism to the nth. The new currency is life, measured in units of minutes. After turning 25 each human becomes a dwindling ATM. Keep earning, you keep living. The 1% control population by keeping inflation high enough so the lowest of the 99% "times out". Niccol (Gattaca, Truman Show) is a filmmaker with big 'high concept' ideas. The theme of his latest is, the virtue of wealth redistribution. "In Time" for the anti-capitalists' global tantrum, this is socialism wrapped up in a B-Grade sci-fi flick... made by a member of the hypocritical, self-serving 1%.</p>
<p><img src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjA3NzI1ODc1MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzI5NjQwNg@@._V1._SY317_CR6,0,214,317_.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8711#commentsSat, 05 Nov 2011 14:08:02 +0000Jameson8711 at http://www.solopassion.comThank you, Steve Jobshttp://www.solopassion.com/node/8580
<p>You delivered the future.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.braincrumbtrail.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/appjle_steve_jobs01.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8580#commentsThu, 25 Aug 2011 13:59:22 +0000Jameson8580 at http://www.solopassion.comObama: We Are Not at War with Islamhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/8443
<p>We crack open the champagne, we celebrate, we dance in the street... and then we immediately sober up when the leader of the Free World says...</p>
<p>"... we must also reaffirm that the United States is not — and never will be — at war with Islam. I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam." </p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZNYmK19-d0U?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-znymk19d0u" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8443#commentsMon, 02 May 2011 09:39:17 +0000Jameson8443 at http://www.solopassion.comDispelling Dickenshttp://www.solopassion.com/node/8389
<p>I came across this lecture on The Industrial Revolution in the library of the long-gone Aristotle Bookshop over a decade ago, and I've been referencing it ever since. In four easy parts the estimable Robert LeFevre dismantles the infamous report written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Thomas_Sadler">Michael Sadler</a>, a propagandist bromide copied with increasing relish by subsequent anti-industrialists. We've all read Dickens' version of events. Not many have read the Supplementary Report to the Sadler Report, which dispels many if not most of the misanthropic myths. LeFevre tracked down one of only four copies in existence and, in the interests of objectivity, sought to paint a warts 'n all portrait of mankind's greatest leap.</p>
<p>We've all heard about the 16-hour days in brutal mills and factories. Now hear the full story. Yes the days were interminably long — in <i>summer</i>; in winter the workers, who were paid by the hour, complained when their wages were halved by the lack of light. Listen as LeFevre explains how the state created the sweatshop with its window tax, and how the lower classes became the Great Middle Class as wages doubled and redoubled thanks to the natural forces of capitalism.</p>
<p>Part One loses sound quality for a period, but bear with it — it's a temporary glitch in an otherwise brilliant presentation. This lecture will arm you with all the ammo you'll need to blast holes in the arguments of those who perpetuate the lies of The Industrial Revolution.</p>
<p>Part One: <a href="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/127.mp3" title="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/127.mp3">http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/1...</a><br />
Part Two: <a href="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/128.mp3" title="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/128.mp3">http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/1...</a><br />
Part Three: <a href="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/129.mp3" title="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/129.mp3">http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/1...</a><br />
Part Four: <a href="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/130.mp3" title="http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/130.mp3">http://mises.org/mp3/lefevre/1...</a></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8389#commentsSun, 03 Apr 2011 06:59:18 +0000Jameson8389 at http://www.solopassion.comA Reminder of Man's Ability to Dream Bighttp://www.solopassion.com/node/8388
<p>Astrochemist Tracy Caldwell Dyson aboard the International Space Station.</p>
<p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOrAL1V5Jg/TOfabcuEmZI/AAAAAAAAIYc/snpHLSrv_c4/s1600/Tracy+Caldwell+Dyson.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8388#commentsSun, 03 Apr 2011 01:27:36 +0000Jameson8388 at http://www.solopassion.comRon Paul: Opt Out!http://www.solopassion.com/node/8329
<p>Ron Paul wins a Republican debate with the call to opt out of the state system, and get Big Government off your back. He's mooting a 10% flat tax; keep most of everything you earn — for life — and look after yourself and don't ask the government for anything. Half the straw poll audience said they'd choose to opt out.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cd9W1dqXAlI?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-cd9w1dqxali" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8329#commentsTue, 22 Feb 2011 13:35:22 +0000Jameson8329 at http://www.solopassion.comIf There *is* a God at the Pike River Mine...http://www.solopassion.com/node/8142
<p>... who truly has the power to get the 29 miners to safety, and we find them dead... then fuck Him.</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8142#commentsMon, 22 Nov 2010 12:10:55 +0000Jameson8142 at http://www.solopassion.comWhere Was Gobby when the Miners Needed Him?http://www.solopassion.com/node/8044
<p>'Camp Hope' they called it, but salvation didn't come from some deity in the sky. It was delivered by a modern jet carrying the high-tech Center Rock drill bit and the men who knew how to use it. And yet when Mario Gomez, the eldest of the miners, finally emerged from his rock tomb, the first thing he did was drop to his knees and bow his head in prayer.</p>
<p>In reports ringing around the world today I haven't been able to find a single word of gratitude from any of the 33 miners toward the gods of industry—the men who worked tirelessly to bring them back from hell. Plenty of praise to the invisible and not one 'thank you' to their rescuers who were standing right in front of them...</p>
<p>"I think I had extraordinary luck. I was with God and with the devil. And I reached out for God," said Sepulveda. </p>
<p>"I am happy because he made it, it's a miracle of God," said one of the wives. </p>
<p>While he was down there, Jose Henriquez turned to his Christianity, forming a prayer group that met several times a day, asking for 33 Bibles to be sent down the narrow supply passage. </p>
<p>Before they were rescued, Gomez wrote on a note: "Patience and faith. God is great and the help of my God is going to make it possible to leave this mine alive."</p>
<p>But it's not just the miners who are stuck in this stinking Stone Age superstition. A Codelco rescuer made the sign of the cross before he was lowered to the trapped men. Pope Benedict XVI said that he "continues with hope to entrust to God's goodness" the fate of the men. More cringing, because inhabitants of the First World should know better, are the celebrity twits who've been twittering...</p>
<p>Justin Bieber: "Just found out the miners of Chile are being rescued!!! Happy for the families being brought back together. Miracles do happen."</p>
<p>Missy Elliot: "The Chilean Miners will be a testimony of how Real God is! Such a blessing to see them healthy and n Great Spirits!"</p>
<p>Erin Andrews: "Well said..@kurtwarner: Praising God for rescue efforts in Chile, praying all 33 r safe &amp; health! Miracles still happen all around us!"</p>
<p>LeAnn Rimes: “You have to believe there is a God and we are watched over when you read the story about the miners in Chile Guess if he’s not done with you yet here on earth he works miracles to make sure you come out of any situation alive and maybe changed a little. There are reasons for it all I believe. Congrats tonal the families who are being reunited with their loved one’s.”</p>
<p>As an antidote to all this bible-bashing bullshit I offer <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703673604575550322091167574.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Daniel Henninger at the WSJ</a> who called the rescue "an enormous victory for Free Market Capitalism."</p>
<p><i>"If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death for those men?</p>
<p>Short answer: the Center Rock drill bit.</p>
<p>This is the miracle bit that drilled down to the trapped miners. Center Rock Inc. is a private company in Berlin, Pa. It has 74 employees. The drill's rig came from Schramm Inc. in West Chester, Pa. Seeing the disaster, Center Rock's president, Brandon Fisher, called the Chileans to offer his drill. Chile accepted. The miners are alive.</p>
<p>Longer answer: The Center Rock drill, heretofore not featured on websites like Engadget or Gizmodo, is in fact a piece of tough technology developed by a small company in it for the money, for profit. That's why they innovated down-the-hole hammer drilling. If they make money, they can do more innovation.</p>
<p>This profit = innovation dynamic was everywhere at that Chilean mine. The high-strength cable winding around the big wheel atop that simple rig is from Germany. Japan supplied the super-flexible, fiber-optic communications cable that linked the miners to the world above.</p>
<p>A remarkable Sept. 30 story about all this by the Journal's Matt Moffett was a compendium of astonishing things that showed up in the Atacama Desert from the distant corners of capitalism.</p>
<p>Samsung of South Korea supplied a cellphone that has its own projector. Jeffrey Gabbay, the founder of Cupron Inc. in Richmond, Va., supplied socks made with copper fiber that consumed foot bacteria, and minimized odor and infection.</p>
<p>Chile's health minister, Jaime Manalich, said, "I never realized that kind of thing actually existed."</i></p>
<p>So, you stupid bloody Chilean ingrates, get up off your fucking knees, straighten your backs and salute the captains of industry who saved your sorry asses.</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8044#commentsThu, 14 Oct 2010 01:45:03 +0000Jameson8044 at http://www.solopassion.comKilling Kids for a Good Cause http://www.solopassion.com/node/8027
<p>First the witch doctors scared their flock into submission by banging Bibles and threatening them with Revelations. Now they're banging almanacs and threatening to kill your kids.</p>
<p>These neo-shamans are coming armed with masters degrees, and they're not afraid to use them. The late Dr. Stephen Schneider Ph.D, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Climatologist, openly advocated the use of scare tactics to push their hocus pocus.</p>
<p>"On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, <i>we are not just scientists but human beings as well.</i> And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change.</p>
<p>To do that we need to get some broad based support, <i>to capture the public’s imagination.</i> That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we <i>have to offer up scary scenarios,</i> make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This “double ethical bind” we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and <i>being honest</i>. I hope that means being both."</p>
<p><img src="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/CoolAds-ACT-Cannes-2009.jpg"></p>
<p>Last weekend their kiddie-propoganda blew up in their faces. The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/objectivistglenn?feature=mhum">10:10 splatter-flick</a> revealed what <a href="//blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100056586/eco-fascism-jumps-the-shark-massive-epic-fail/">James Delingpole calls</a> the “snarling, wicked, homicidal misanthropy beneath its cloak of gentle, bunny-hugging righteousness.” </p>
<p>But this wasn't the first time they killed kids for a good cause. </p>
<p>They've drowned them.</p>
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<p>Run them over with trains.</p>
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<p>And scared them to death.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QU7BO35n47I?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-qu7bo35n47i" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>When they're not sacrificing them to the Goddess Gaia, they're brainwashing them with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I-AhVkXlb4">Santa cartoons</a>, teaching them to <a href="http://mises.org/daily/2997#_ftn4">demonize sceptics</a>, and enlisting them in their <a href="http://www.bobbyshred.com/video/bears_NEW.wmv">emotional blackmail</a> and political campaigns...</p>
<p><img src="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/print/2008/11/vote-green-rangitoto-girl.jpg"></p>
<p>... and fascistic propaganda pitches that would have made Goebbels proud.</p>
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<p>Apologists for the 10:10 "No Pressure" snuff film roll their eyes at sceptics for not having a sense of humour — for taking the film too literally. They forget their misanthropy starts at the very top. The former Director of the Climate Research Unit Dr. Phil Jones once sent his pal Michael "Jolly-Hockey-Stick" Mann the death notice of renowned sceptic John Daly, with the message: "In an odd way this is cheering news!"</p>
<p>With the years and years of eco-proselytism in schools all over the world, it was only a matter of time before they produced <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1308138/Eco-terrorist-James-Jay-Lee-shot-dead-Discovery-Channel-HQ.html">a believer who'd take their evil premise all the way.</a> </p>
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<p>[Hat Tip: <a href="http://pc.blogspot.com/2010/10/friday-morning-ramble-dont-mention-war.html">NOT PC</a>]</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8027#commentsFri, 08 Oct 2010 11:57:12 +0000Jameson8027 at http://www.solopassion.comObama Gets Another Media Savaging... on CNN!!http://www.solopassion.com/node/8019
<p>Even the liberal media has had enough...</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rPYK-yApV5U?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-rpykyapv5u" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p> (Just another media giant “destructive to [America’s] long-term growth.”?)</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8019#commentsMon, 04 Oct 2010 12:09:44 +0000Jameson8019 at http://www.solopassion.comLest We Forgethttp://www.solopassion.com/node/7971
<p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/4979828250_ac7727edd5_b.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/7971#commentsSat, 11 Sep 2010 15:19:29 +0000Jameson7971 at http://www.solopassion.comThe Rationally Optimistic Guide to Life, the Planet and the Future of Humankindhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/7891
<p>Stumbled on to this pithy video by Matt Ridley who points out how 21st Century man is living like a king... <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Example/smile.png" title="Smiling" alt="Smiling" class="smiley-content"/> </p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lOQGiveUxf8?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-loqgiveuxf8" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/7891#commentsMon, 02 Aug 2010 12:08:01 +0000Jameson7891 at http://www.solopassion.comMother Nature Deals with the Oil Spill Herselfhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/7890
<p>It appears the shock and awe of the black-bleeding BP disaster is inexplicably disappearing and disappointing the environmentalists who were hoping to milk it till the fart-free cows came home. Nobody can find the spill as Jeff Perren's excellent article on <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-crisis-that-wasnt-wheres-all-the-oil">Pajamas Media</a> reports:</p>
<p>"After two years of near-daily crises, most of them either created or worsened by the federal government, we’ve entered a period of relative calm. It won’t last. Pelosi and crew will make sure of that. But during this lull it’s a good time to consider the crisis that didn’t occur: the wrecking of the Gulf from the BP oil spill.</p>
<p>Several news reports are showing that the expected devastation of the waters and shoreline of the Gulf simply hasn’t happened. Early (and historical) evidence suggests that it never will. The oil slicks expected to last for months have failed to cooperate with the government’s desire to use the crisis to pass cap and tax."</p>
<p><a>ABC</a> also reports:</p>
<p>"For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems. BP and the federal government have amassed an army to clean the oil up, but there's one problem—they're having trouble finding it.</p>
<p>At its peak last month, the oil slick was the size of Kansas, but it has been rapidly shrinking, now down to the size of New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Today, ABC News surveyed a marsh area and found none, and even on a flight out to the rig site Sunday with the Coast Guard, there was no oil to be seen."</p>
<p><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/07/28/us/jp-SPILL/jp-SPILL-articleLarge.jpg"></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/us/28spill.html?_r=1">NY Times</a> has also picked up the story:</p>
<p>"The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected, a piece of good news that raises tricky new questions about how fast the government should scale back its response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster."</p>
<p>So too <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0727/Gulf-oil-spill-Where-has-the-oil-gone">The Christian Science Monitor</a>:</p>
<p>"The reduction has amazed scientists who are tracking the spill and raised many questions about where all the oil has gone. An 800-vessel skimming fleet that weeks ago pulled in 25,000 barrels of oil a day could barely find 50 barrels a day late last week. That means much of the up to 3 million barrels suspected to be remaining in the Gulf has largely gone off the radar."</p>
<p>[hat tip: <a href="http://pc.blogspot.com/"> Not PC</a>]</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/7890#commentsSOLOMon, 02 Aug 2010 11:52:16 +0000Jameson7890 at http://www.solopassion.comPete Bethune is a Bullshitterhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/7838
<p>Released from the Japanese after his comrades "tricked" them, <i>Ady Gil</i> Captain Pete Bethune will no doubt already be planning his next act of eco-piracy. Thankfully we can always look to our contemporary court jesters to tell the King how it really is. <i>South Park's</i> "Whale Whores" episode has its lead character Kenny turn into an eco-terrorist after the Japanese go on a dolphin-killing rampage...</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jc8L-OzSZdo?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-jc8lozszdo" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>... Cut to Captain of the <i>Sea Shepherd</i> Paul Watson and his band of merry menaces...</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nrlWXP4ZQvY?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-nrlwxp4zqvy" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>... now pick it up at about 07:20 when they're tossing rancid butter at the Jap whalers... (Unfortunately YouTube have pulled all the English translations, but somehow it works even better in this language...)</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I5-usgq5FXE?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-i5usgq5fxe" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>Finally, hear the South Park creators explain why they were compelled to side with the Japs...</p>
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http://www.solopassion.com/node/7838#commentsMon, 12 Jul 2010 16:34:26 +0000Jameson7838 at http://www.solopassion.comHappy Birthday, Americahttp://www.solopassion.com/node/7808
<p>Useful Idiots most of them, but here these Hollywood elite put their oratory skills to good use to make a Declaration of Independence...</p>
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<p>(Looking forward to the YouTube mash-up when someone substitutes the British King for BO.) <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Example/smile.png" title="Smiling" alt="Smiling" class="smiley-content"/></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/7808#commentsSun, 04 Jul 2010 21:21:25 +0000Jameson7808 at http://www.solopassion.comIs Sam Harris an Objectivist?http://www.solopassion.com/node/7628
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Hj9oB4zpHww?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-hj9ob4zphww" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>He expands on his talk, limited by the short format of TED, <a href="http://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/moral_confusion_in_the_name_of_science3/">here.</a></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/7628#commentsSat, 24 Apr 2010 04:45:30 +0000Jameson7628 at http://www.solopassion.comHappy Birthday, Mr Presidenthttp://www.solopassion.com/node/7353
<p>A tribute to Ronald Reagan, 99 today.</p>
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http://www.solopassion.com/node/7353#commentsSun, 07 Feb 2010 08:34:14 +0000Jameson7353 at http://www.solopassion.comThe Margaret Thatcher Threadhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/7352
<p>Feel free to post your favourite Maggie moments.</p>
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http://www.solopassion.com/node/7352#commentsSun, 07 Feb 2010 07:59:30 +0000Jameson7352 at http://www.solopassion.comPelosi & Brown Caption Contest—PRIZE JACKPOTTED TO $50!!http://www.solopassion.com/node/7043
<p>Give these assholes a caption and you could win a prize worth US$50*!!!</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/4076937035_2df79bb359_o.jpg"></p>
<p>* Twice now we've tried to give away a prize. We'll just have to keep upping the ante until it's an offer you can't refuse. <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Example/smile.png" title="Smiling" alt="Smiling" class="smiley-content"/></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/7043#commentsThu, 05 Nov 2009 10:59:21 +0000Jameson7043 at http://www.solopassion.comMichael Moore Caption Contest - PRIZE TO BE WON!!http://www.solopassion.com/node/6955
<p>Fat bastard needs a caption. The winner for the best caption will receive a prize (yet to be announced) worth US$25.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2779/4049719364_7ec30d687f_o.jpg"></p>
<p>Well done, Brant! <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Example/smile.png" title="Smiling" alt="Smiling" class="smiley-content"/></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6955#commentsWed, 07 Oct 2009 04:05:00 +0000Jameson6955 at http://www.solopassion.comFarmer's Daughter Disarms Terrorist, Shoots Him With His Own AK47http://www.solopassion.com/node/6934
<p>This is one of the truly great stories to appear in the news since al Qaeda became a household name. As most of you know I consider the 'moderate' Muslim complicit in the Jihad for their disgusting silence on the matter. 21-year-old Rukhsana Kausar is not only free of that charge, she goes down as a hero in the war against terror.</p>
<p>When three armed terrorists broke into her family's home and attacked her father who refused their demands for food and shelter, she took to their leader with an axe, knocked him down, stole his AK47 and shot him dead. She shot another gunman as he fled.</p>
<p>She will receive a £4000 reward if the dead terrorist is confirmed as Uzafa Shah, a wanted Pakistani LeT commander.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/6244076/Farmers-daughter-disarms-terrorist-and-shoots-him-dead-with-AK47.html">The Telegraph</a> reports:</p>
<p>Supt Shafqat Watali said Miss Kausar’s reaction was “a rude shock” for the militants. “Normally they get king-like treatment but this was totally unexpected,” he said.</p>
<p>Miss Kausar said she had never fired an assault rifle before but had seen it in films and could not stand by while her father was being hurt. “I couldn’t bear my father’s humiliation. If I’d failed to kill him, they would have killed us,” she said.</p>
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<p>The police have nominated her for the president's gallantry award. Here she gets the 5-Star SOLO Award for KASSNESS. <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/star.png" title="Star" alt="Star" class="smiley-content"/> <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/star.png" title="Star" alt="Star" class="smiley-content"/> <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/star.png" title="Star" alt="Star" class="smiley-content"/> <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/star.png" title="Star" alt="Star" class="smiley-content"/> <img src="http://www.solopassion.com/sites/all/modules/smileys/packs/Roving/star.png" title="Star" alt="Star" class="smiley-content"/> </p>
<p><img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01491/india_gun_2_1491850c.jpg"></p>
<p>[Hat tip: Kenny]</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6934#commentsFri, 02 Oct 2009 04:47:39 +0000Jameson6934 at http://www.solopassion.comAhmadinejad: Holocaust a Lie, Israel Has No Futurehttp://www.solopassion.com/node/6876
<p>In case there's anyone who still thinks Ahmadinejad was misquoted when he called for Israel to be wiped from the map, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE58H17S20090918?rpc=60">this Reuters report</a> assures us of his true feelings.</p>
<p>"[Israel] will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it," warns the Islamofascist. "This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end."</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6876#commentsMon, 21 Sep 2009 08:00:03 +0000Jameson6876 at http://www.solopassion.comOnce Were Warriorshttp://www.solopassion.com/node/6869
<p>On the eve of the All Blacks' worst ever result in the Tri-Nations, I was at once cheered and made melancholic by this video that a friend recommended I watch. </p>
<p>Christian had the heart of a lion and the feet of Mercury, but he wasn't the only star on that team; they were all heroes, inspiring a nation with their gritty resolve and matching-winning ingenuity. It was an era, now almost forgotten, when we never sweated a deficit in the dying minutes of a match—we always knew they'd find a way through the line.</p>
<p>This may seem a trifle to those who don't like sport. But what we're witnessing today, on the battleground of our national sport, is a reflection of the gutless nation itself. Gone are the hard men, replaced with a generation of slack-jawed New Age wimps. Gone is our will to win, replaced with a head hung low and a tail between our legs. Political correctness has pulled our boys out of boot camp and pushed them into bible camp for lessons in loving thy brother, thy neighbour and thy enemy. </p>
<p>Until we stop worrying about everyone's feelings, we won't start thinking. Until we start thinking we'll remain blind to that oncological malaise called mediocrity.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/y0945lQKP7I?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-y0945lqkp7i" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>[hat tip: Hugh Walsh]</p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6869#commentsSat, 19 Sep 2009 03:50:26 +0000Jameson6869 at http://www.solopassion.comLest We Forgethttp://www.solopassion.com/node/6837
<p><img src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/photogalleries/9-11/images/primary/empire.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6837#commentsFri, 11 Sep 2009 07:55:21 +0000Jameson6837 at http://www.solopassion.comChristopher Hitchens Debates the Riddlerhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/6815
<p>Dr. William Lane Craig Ph.D. isn't our resident Evil Dr. Riddler Ph.D. but he's clearly from the same school of twisted thought: "If God does not exist then objective moral values do not exist."</p>
<p>There are 14 enthralling parts to this structured debate in which Hitch—notwithstanding certain philosophical blind spots—takes a bat to the theologian's batty ideas. </p>
<p>(The first part is missing, but nothing seems to be lost.)</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7ban_ZA0Ahw?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-7banza0ahw" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6815#commentsSOLOMon, 07 Sep 2009 00:15:15 +0000Jameson6815 at http://www.solopassion.comThe Face of Obamafanshttp://www.solopassion.com/node/6778
<p>Police photographs reveal an interesting trend emerging in the criminal demographic:</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3877128235_4bd2f2b240_o.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6778#commentsTue, 01 Sep 2009 11:12:31 +0000Jameson6778 at http://www.solopassion.comDr. Dick Destructs!http://www.solopassion.com/node/6772
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3524/3867025429_c6952fffcd.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6772#commentsSun, 30 Aug 2009 03:25:06 +0000Jameson6772 at http://www.solopassion.comA Truly Heroic Doghttp://www.solopassion.com/node/6737
<p>This remarkable video poses the question: can animals be heroic in the human sense? </p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zttS9W3PvpE?rel=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wmode=opaque" width="400" height="250" class="video-filter video-youtube vf-ztts9w3pvpe" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6737#commentsTue, 25 Aug 2009 11:07:08 +0000Jameson6737 at http://www.solopassion.comCAPTION CONTEST: Win a Bottle of Shirazhttp://www.solopassion.com/node/6702
<p><img src="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/67/l_ce96938be91e40b889778a5dcea026de.jpg"></p>
http://www.solopassion.com/node/6702#commentsSOLOWed, 19 Aug 2009 12:12:04 +0000Jameson6702 at http://www.solopassion.com